Using linear optimization and swarm intelligent heuristic to find a route for MANET

The aim of this study is to explore potential routing protocol for software development of MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc Network) peer-to-peer system which can be used for battle field radio communications. MANET consists of a number of mobile devices which communicate over radio, and a MANET with cell phones (MANET-WCP) is the physical infrastructure of the underlined research. One of the biggest challenges of this type of network is to find a route between a source node to a destination node via intermediate nodes with mobility. In this paper, we present a routing protocol using swarm intelligent heuristic (SIH) for MANET-WCP. We refer to the protocol as the Swap Intelligent Heuristic Associate Based Routing, i.e., SIH-ABR. The protocol replaces the route selection mechanism with ant colony optimization heuristic. The main objectives of this approach are: 1). to test the adaptation of SIH-ABR; 2). to verify the efficiency of service; 3). to explore its scalability with a larger number of nodes in a land battle scenario.